Happy Belated V-Day!!!

We had a great Valentine's Day weekend! Lee was working, but we made a fun day of it anyway! :) I crocheted the kids gifts (again)! Haha! It has now become too much fun and a lot of a challenge to see what I can come up with! :) I made them cup cozies, washcloths, and little crocheted stuffed hearts! :) Sweet stuff! It was a very eventful weekend though! I managed to capture a picture of Titus smiling!!! Even though he's been smiling for about a week now, I haven't gotten a picture of it because the camera was far away and I was holding him with both hands cupping his head! He smiles most when we're talking to him, or when he's in his swing watching his animals spin on the mobile above his head! :) Haha! BUT, what a GREAT Valentine!!! ;) Love it! Here are some great V-Day shots from our house! ;)

Catching up!

Well, I tried to post a video a few weeks ago and it was too big, so I gave up after all the energy I expended in that endeavor, and haven't posted since! Sorry! :) Anyway! I'm back! Hope everyone had a great V-Day! :)
I decided to do a few "photo shoots" of my own! Hahaha!
Then there are a couple of pics from the weeks of night time sleep deprivation! Hehe! He was wide awake at the beginning, and then finally conked! :)
Next are some pictures of the Baby Cozy I crocheted for Titus when he was 4 1/2 weeks old! He loves it so much that he will sometimes not sleep without it!!! Hahaha! I'm going to need to make him a bigger one soon! What a cutie! I saw these in a picture and thought I'd try to make one myself!!! I am soooo glad I did! I think Titus is too! He's a happy baby in it!
The rest are from Titus' first trip to the park, his first trip to DBU and just a few cute snapshots of him and the kiddos! :) Fun stuff! I had to narrow these down from literally 100's of pictures, maybe even 1000's!!! I know, already! Well, enjoy!
So, here are the pictures!

It's a BOY!

Hello all! We did finally have our baby and it was a BOY!!! Titus Creed was born on January 1, 2009 (the day before Zoe's 5th birthday) at 8:09pm. He weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces and was 20 inches long! :) We had him at a birthing center, and it was my first time to have a natural birth, meaning no epidural! :) I am still surprised that it's over and it all seems soooo surreal to me! I am recovering so much faster this time, although I don't know why! I am however, exhausted due to the round the clock every two hour feedings! I'm glad he's eating great, but I am finding it hard to get naps in here and there because most of the time someone who needs supervision is awake! :) Haha! I will survive! :) I may not be blogging much in the next few weeks! I have sooo many cute pictures and so little time! :) Here are a few!





We came home the night he was born at 11:30pm, so the next morning was a bit like Christmas with a new brother home! Zoe asked me why I didn't wait and have him on her birthday!!! Hahaha! I'm sure she'll be happy next year when she has her own day to turn 6! :)











So, there he is in a "few" shots! Hahaha! I have many more to share! The last two were from two days ago and the first ones are from the first day, so I will probably be pulling out a few of my favorites from time to time to add to a blog! Fun stuff! I may not do that, though, just because it's hard to keep up with my own addiction to snapping the camera! I get overwhelmed when it comes to picking a favorite picture!!! We shall see!!! I may end up putting my birth story on here? Not sure! It is a good one, if anyone is interested in having a baby at a birth center. I need to get it written anyway, so I'll have to get on that! Blessings for the New Year!!! We got ours off to a running start! Haha!

Merry Christmas!!!

Well, Christmas is over and I am still with child! :) I don't really know why I was thinking I would have this baby before the due date, but we'll see, eh? Hahaha! I've almost reached the due date, though. I have to say, as much as I wanted to have the baby before Christmas, I am thankful for the time I was able to have to make a bunch of gifts that I would not have been able to fit in with a newborn schedule! I made at least one crocheted gift for almost every family member! :) I'm very proud of the work! I found a pattern for a cute crocheted doll 2 days before Christmas, so I was working on them through those 2 days!!! It made me crazy too, since we decided that Christmas with my family would be at our house on Christmas day, with u being so close to the due date! It was so fun, but I stressed myself out by adding these 2 little dolls to the gift list, making them a high priority to finish before Christmas day!!! It ended up being fine and everything was cleaned and then re-cleaned (after the Christmas morning mess)! Hehe! I managed to make the dolls for the girls, a ball for Asher, scarves and mittens for all three kids, a scarf for Lee, and scarves for several other family members.






By Christmas morning (after my 2 day crochet-a-thon on the dolls where I stayed up until 3am 2 nights in a row) my fingers felt weird and kind of numb, and I actually had trouble ripping the paper! Haha! I was very glad when Lee agreed that the paper we picked for our gifts was a little harder to rip! :) At least I knew it wasn't REAL damage! Hehe! Just kidding! I was soooo tired, though! I really think that my hands were just still asleep, because later I was fine. :) I was able to do dishes, cook, clean and do all the things to prepare for the family to come over that night! :) We had soooo much fun!!! It proved to be uneventful, at least in the way of the baby coming! :) I have decided that I am going to just relax and take advantage of my "free time" before the baby comes and try not to get so bogged down on having him/her as much as I have been. It's a little hard not to get like that, only because of how uncomfortable it is at the end, but it's very neat to be pregnant and feel the baby moving. I'm going to just try and enjoy this time! :) So, my birthday down, Christmas down... now we wait for the baby's arrival and Zoe's 5th birthday on January 2nd!!! Which will come first?